So it’s clearly been a while since I posted anything here, but its been even longer since I posted anything about the Bio. channel.

Existing in Australia on the Foxtel platform (in one form or another) since 2004, the Bio. channel has recently refreshed its look and proposition.

Produced by Sydney-based Jonathon Lau, the 1960’s and 70’s inspired design extended to the production itself, and adds a real depth to the rebrand that can be felt on-screen:

Using a Blackmagic Studio camera the team shot hundreds of printed transparencies folding, moving, sliding and bending. These live elements were combined with motion graphics to be at the centre of the onscreen package. The authenticity and nostalgia from these techniques make a good match for the channel’s brand values.

Channel 4 stands up for what it believes in a new campaign designed to remind viewers of its remit and purpose.

We were set up to experiment, provoke and entertain, and to put our profits into our programmes. You may love us, you may want to punch our lights out, but we make programmes we believe in. We can do this because we were Born Risky.

Created by Les Télécréateurs for French public service channel France 5, these idents are damn near perfect in their simplicity.

The concept is as simple as it is strong; a multitude of things that move in the same direction, one following the other, like a chain reaction between completely different worlds. Its underlying meaning is stated loud and clear: knowledge derives from making new links.

Understated and engaging, you can see more from the channels branding here.

After nearly 45 years of bulletins, the BBC signed off from Television Centre for the last time on Sunday evening. As of now the entire BBC news operation is based out of Broadcasting House, billed as The World’s Newsroom and home to over 2,000 journalists the billion dollar revamp of the news division now see’s television, radio and online working alongside for the first time.

Mishal Husain led the final broadcast from Television Centre on March 17th at 10pm, with Sophie Raworth christening the new home for BBC One the next day at 1pm, with the above stories documenting the historic move.

Australian comedian Adam Hills delivered the latest Channel 4 “Alternative Christmas message” this year focusing on the Paralympics, with reference to the hugely successful Meet The Superhumans campaign. Shot in a single long take it’s a particularly sincere and poetic spin on the annual tradition.